I used to work in the event planning business. Nintendo is not saving much money by not doing a press conference. It really doesn't cost much to hold an event for a few hours (by the standards of a multi-billion dollar company). It's somewhere in the area of 100k and you can add or trim from that as you wish. That may seem like a lot of money, but that's spare change in the Nintendo couch cushions. People please stop using this lame rationale.

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Yeah cause paying for full orchestras and 2 dozen jumbotrons and 20 models is chump change.
Also like I said they don't want to focus on bad sales, just games, services and features.

They still have the Nokia Theater booked. They will have 2 events: One for distributors and investors. Another for Gaming Journalists and others. I'm sure the one for the Journalists will be streamed or something. Did Nintendo really say that these are behind closed doors or something?

If Nintendo can surpass January 23's ND, we'll be fine. Remember how quickly that spread across the net? Yeah, this seems it will be mainly for the core audience. So what if the casuals don't watch E3? They will be the ones catching the TV commercials for it, once they start rolling them out in the coming months again (hopefully better ones).

While I understand the knee jerk reaction of "Nintendoomed", E3 probably won't be any different than usual. We're still going to get trailers and gameplay footage for Nintendo's games. That's what matters to me.

I would say Retro is apart of the Nintendo core 1st party developers. They really don't have a distinct identity like Rare did.

Also, no one is disputing that Monolith isn't a 1st party. However, to say that Xenoblade and X are Nintendo games is a bit misleading, because those games would likely remain unchanged if they were made available on any other platform. You can't say the same for Nintendo's core franchises though.

I used to work in the event planning business. Nintendo is not saving much money by not doing a press conference. It really doesn't cost much to hold an event for a few hours (by the standards of a multi-billion dollar company). It's somewhere in the area of 100k and you can add or trim from that as you wish. That may seem like a lot of money, but that's spare change in the Nintendo couch cushions. People please stop using this lame rationale.

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Yeah cause paying for full orchestras and 2 dozen jumbotrons and 20 models is chump change.
Also like I said they don't want to focus on bad sales, just games, services and features.

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Yes. Yes it is chump change. If your a multi billion dollar company paying a band and a few girls is nothing. They spend more very year on business cards.

I used to work in the event planning business. Nintendo is not saving much money by not doing a press conference. It really doesn't cost much to hold an event for a few hours (by the standards of a multi-billion dollar company). It's somewhere in the area of 100k and you can add or trim from that as you wish. That may seem like a lot of money, but that's spare change in the Nintendo couch cushions. People please stop using this lame rationale.

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Yeah cause paying for full orchestras and 2 dozen jumbotrons and 20 models is chump change.Also like I said they don't want to focus on bad sales, just games, services and features.

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Yes. Yes it is chump change. If your a multi billion dollar company paying a band and a few girls is nothing. They spend more very year on business cards.

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Just because you have the money doesn't mean you are going to unnecessarily waste it. You don't become a multibillion dollar company by spending money you aren't making in profits.

When 3DS sales were low Iwata took a pay cut. Did he need to? No. Would it have hurt Nintendo if he didn't? No. But he did an honorable thing by taking less from the company as they were LOSING money. Same concept here. No need to spend lavishly when you're LOSING money.

Good thing you don't run any fortune 500 companies. With that attitude you'd be bankrupt in less than 5 years.

MonkeysWithGuns, money is ALWAYS a driving factor for business decisions. ALWAYS. That said, Wii U sales are bad. Nintendo does not want to focus on that, so they have changed the format accordingly. In the proces, saving money by keeping their presentation expenses much more modest. They have many factors into thie change in format, and you can bet that a company forecasting significant LOSES has factored in money somewhere in their. When you're hemorrhaging money you always look for ways too slow it down (not speed it up), at every chance you get.

No longer hyped TBH. Directs are great, but the don't bring as much energy, hype, and surprises compared to E3.

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True to an extent. Remember the year with the midnight surprise Smash bros trailer and announcements? If they can do stuff like that, I think it would be awesome. Steady stream of game announcements of good new material would be great. But you are right, I used to make a bunch of food and sit down at my tv and watch it with my brother. Won't be doing that this year.

No longer hyped TBH. Directs are great, but the don't bring as much energy, hype, and surprises compared to E3.

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True to an extent. Remember the year with the midnight surprise Smash bros trailer and announcements? If they can do stuff like that, I think it would be awesome. Steady stream of game announcements of good new material would be great. But you are right, I used to make a bunch of food and sit down at my tv and watch it with my brother. Won't be doing that this year.

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And the fact we will basically ONLY see Iwata talking and thats it and maybe some developers talking, its going to be a snore fest. No Miyamoto walking on stage with a sword and shield, no absurd things from Reggie (My body is ready, zombie reggie, etc.).